Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Berlin startup to wrap homes in ‘second skin’ to increase energy efficiency

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A Berlin-based firm will rehabilitate apartment buildings in the German city of Bochum. Ecoworks’s project represents the increased need for eco-friendly and energy-efficient restorations. About a third of Germany’s residential buildings have the lowest and next-to-lowest energy efficiency ratings. A Berlin-based firm will rehabilitate apartment buildings in the German city of Bochum by applying a … Read more

Energy fears weaken German taboos over nuclear power and speed limits

Germany may address the energy crisis by setting a speed limit on the autobahn. The country’s final three nuclear power reactors are scheduled to shut down at the end of the year. To combat climate change, there are requests to set speed limits on the carriageways. Ricarda Lang, co-leader of the Green Party, says her … Read more

Union Chief in Germany Warns of Collapse of All Industries

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Yasmin Fahimi, head of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), calls for a ceiling on residential energy prices. She stated that the crisis could result in social and labour upheaval. Russia has curtailed exports through the Nord Stream pipeline by 60 percent. Prior to the commencement of crisis talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on … Read more

Energy costs are wreaking chaos in Asia

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A number of countries in Asia are experiencing their greatest energy crisis in years. There is also growing unrest and instability due to the rising cost of living. Even relatively wealthy nations such as Australia are feeling the squeeze of increased energy costs. The Australian government has suspended the national electricity market indefinitely. Asia: In … Read more

Water has become more expensive than petrol: Syed Khursheed Shah

Syed Khursheed Shah

Water has become more expensive than petrol, says Federal Minister for Water Resources Syed Khursheed Shah It has been 38 years since we have not built any dam The energy crisis was not given importance in the past, he says. He says Pakistan has a capacity of 114 million acres per foot for water, and … Read more

US LNG exporters are looking to Europe as energy crisis intensifies

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US exporters of liquefied natural gas announce agreements to increase supplies to Europe. US exporters are looking to fill the void left by Russia’s withdrawal from LNG imports. Long-term supply agreements have locked up purchases of U.S. gas for future decades. Wednesday, US exporters of LNG announced plenty of agreements to increase supplies to Europe, … Read more

Energy crisis: A decade of high energy prices & rise of battery tech

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UK is many months ahead of Australia in terms of where the energy crisis is headed. Both countries experiencing increasing power costs as a result of a variety of issues ranging from the war in Ukraine to low gas stockpiles and increased demand for gas in Asia. According to Savage, smaller Australian energy retailers will … Read more

Croatia preparing to become Europe’s energy Hub after it boycotts Russia

Croatia will continue to back Ukraine says Plenkovic

Croatia preparing to become Europe’s energy Hub after it boycotts Russia Croatia could turn into an “energy center in the northern Adriatic” as Europe tries to wean itself off Russian energy, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said during a visit to Cyprus on Wednesday. Croatia’s liquid petroleum gas (LNG) terminal on the northern Adriatic island of … Read more

Food and Fuel emergency in Sri Lanka

Food and Fuel emergency in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka could run out of fuel and food in the following month, as per the previous energy service. Udaya Gammanpila was sacked recently for scrutinizing government strategy that has taken the country extremely close to liquidation. The previous energy serve told the monetary emergency in his nation … Read more

Goodbye to 2021’s loose money and hello to 2022’s inflation fighting

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LONDON: From the great lockdown, to the great rebound? At the start of this year the world was optimistic that the development of pioneering vaccines would restrict the global spread of the Covid-19. December 2020 marked the date when vaccinations for the virus first began to be administered around the world. Since then, the death … Read more

Germany to close nuclear reactors despite energy crisis

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BERLIN: Germany will shut down three nuclear power plants on Friday even as Europe faces one of its worst-ever energy crises; following Angela Merkel’s timetable for phasing out atomic energy. With the energy prices already on the rise and tensions higher than ever between Europe and key gas supplier Russia, the closure of the plants in … Read more

Marriyum Aurangzeb lambastes PTI govt for energy crisis across country

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LAHORE: PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb lashed out at the government on Thursday for the deepening energy crisis in the country. The PML-N leader, in a tweet, stated that under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, the government had managed to eradicate the energy crisis while the incumbent government has only made false claims to the masses. … Read more

PML-N Leader Lashes Out at PTI Government over Emerging Power Crisis

PML-N Leader Lashes Out at PTI Government over Emerging Power Crisis

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former finance minister Miftah Ismail on Sunday lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government for the emerging energy crisis in the country and delays in the dry docking of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, resulting in gas and electricity shortages. In a press conference, Ismail raised the question … Read more